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Happy Prosperous Sheep Year!
I wrote this article about traditional Cantonese foods eaten during Chinese New Year for DEPARTURES online here. (I included an old-school Canto-Singaporean salad, northern Chinese mutton hot pot and a modern Hong Kong lamb tartare for Year of the Sheep as well). Kung Hei Faat Choy to you!
The Cantonese do not eat to live, but live to ...

In October 2012, I went on a palate-enriching "Amazing Race" food-sourcing trip around Japan with Head Sushi Chef Kazutoshi Endo of Zuma Hong Kong.
Endo's been kneading raw fish onto vinegared rice as Head Sushi Chef for Zuma London. When Heston Blumenthal wants sushi, he calls Endo up. That means he gets face in Japan. Not bad ...

After a day at the Yamasa Soy Sauce Factory in Narita and their brewery in Chōshi, Chiba, we went back to Yamasa Shoyu's Tokyo office for a meeting with their president, Mr. Hamaguchi. He’s a very soft-spoken and cultured man, even after endless pourings of beer and sake. And he took us to Ishii, a restaurant ...

In October 2012, I went on a palate-enriching "Amazing Race" food-sourcing trip around Japan with Head Sushi Chef Kazutoshi Endo of Zuma Hong Kong.
Endo's been kneading raw fish onto vinegared rice as Head Sushi Chef for Zuma London. When Heston Blumenthal wants sushi, he calls Endo up. That means he gets face in Japan. Not bad ...

Continued from "A Day at Yamasa Shoyu"
Early next morning, despite being hideously hungover yet again, we’re thrilled to go to where the three of us have never been before: Fukui Prefecture. It’s a smooth train ride with a yummy yakitori bento that only Shinkansen can provide. I should sleep, but am swept up with giddy nostalgia ...

First on the itinerary bright and early at 7am after a Roppongi night out was the ultra high tech and immaculate factories of Yamasa Shoyu in Narita, newly built in 2011.
It's a very auspicious start to the day as Endo — despite being Japanese — is 10 minutes late, and I, a whopping 15 freaking minutes... for ...

Look what the wacky W Taipei welcomes me with? Of course I had to go straight back down to the Woo Bar again to party rock the night away @ their W Hotels Worldwide DJ Showoff party they invited me to.
The next morning I was so hungover hungry I stuffed those chocolate lips into my ...

Coz the sign says "GOOD TO EAT FRIED CHICKEN" in Chinese. And I was drunk as fuck.
It went really well with the Taiwanese oden. The quality were not as refined as the original Japanese versions (flavour & texture profiles not sophisticatedly subtle enough). Really it was just the syrupy sweet & hot sauce that made the ...